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Semi-Automatic Ground Environment(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by privong 11y ago|0 comments
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“Largely just men doing sums”: Aaronson's review of the Ramanujan film(scottaaronson.com)
2 points by privong 11y ago|0 comments
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by privong 11y ago
> Free speech cannot be used to protect people who commit crimes against the economy. That's a tautology, and not very defining or useful. Of course the things that are crimes are not covered by free speech. But the question was, wh
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by privong 11y ago
> Carl Icahn and CNBC should already have been investigated for this open manipulation of the market. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you (or for that matter agreeing with you), but where would you draw the line of free speech
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by privong 11y ago
According to the ACM website, it is the 2015 Award, not the 2016 award (as the HN title currently states).
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House Passes Bill Requiring Search Warrants to Access Your Old Emails(reason.com)
8 points by privong 11y ago|0 comments
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by privong 11y ago
> Would $25,888/yr for a single journal not count as '_that_ expensive'? For a journal cost, $25,888/yr is expensive, but no, it wouldn't count as "_that_ expensive". I meant "_that_ expensive&quot
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by privong 11y ago
> Assumption 2: the cost of the subscriptions is passed on to the primary customers of the universities -- students. This is not likely to be true. Most universities in the US take overheads on grants. So if you get a $20,000 grant, the
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by privong 11y ago
> Physics can collect so much data that the generally accepted standard for results is five sigma. There are biases in physics, but it's much harder to delude yourself into a five sigma result than a two sigma one--in the end the r
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by privong 11y ago
> But that's pretty much what Aaronson is implying. That physics can be cold, calculating, unbiased while the social sciences are the opposite. Sure, and I agree that it's not necessarily true. I just wanted to point out that
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by privong 11y ago
> There are systematic biases in the social sciences, and there are systematic biases in physics. Read Lee Smolin's The Trouble with Physics. As they are social systems, they will always be biased. And the most dangerous bias is th
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by privong 11y ago
> He's not a social scientist, and I don't think he'd appreciate an anthropologist evaluating the state of affairs in quantum computing research. But, from things I have read elsewhere, there does seem to be a reasonably c
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New NASA budget eats the seed corn of its Journey to Mars(arstechnica.com)
3 points by privong 11y ago|1 comments
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by privong 11y ago
The title is a bit ambiguous ("Batteries last 400 Times Longer") and could be interpreted that the battery can store 400x more energy. It would be more precise to say that the discovery was for batteries that can last through 400x
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Cymothoa exigua(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by privong 11y ago|0 comments
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The Dark Side of Socialized Motherhood(reason.com)
1 points by privong 11y ago|0 comments
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by privong 11y ago
> HN coolkids downvoting advice that makes software more portable and reliable. What a fucking shock. A little more verbosity on the advice might have helped. I wouldn't have properly understood you were saying without @peatmoss&#x
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by privong 11y ago
There's something very meta about "serious" news organizations writing about how much trouble they're having, competing with "silly" organizations like buzzfeed. I guess this is a minor, backpage story (actuall
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Kuwait set to enforce DNA testing law on all(news.kuwaittimes.net)
70 points by privong 11y ago|47 comments
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by privong 11y ago
> Users who flag a post like this shouldn't really have flagging privs. I agree with you that the article is focused on an important topic (and I did not flag it), but I don't think you can easily make that one-to-one link betw
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by privong 11y ago
> Anyone have any rough numbers on what this would cost Joe Schmo to buy? There's a huge variety. An individual subscription to Nature is $200/year[0], but they often charge $30 for electronic access to individual articles. An
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by privong 11y ago
> If it is free then tax payers will have to pay more to make sure it is available. That's necessarily true. It's true that universities pay for journal subscriptions, but I guess a significant portion (or even all) of that exp
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Grading Trudeau on quantum computing(scottaaronson.com)
197 points by privong 11y ago|119 comments
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by privong 11y ago
> If Obama's so dead-set against this bill, why doesn't he simply say he'll veto it if Congress passes it? Saudi Arabia might not appreciate it if Congress passes the bill, even if Obama vetoes it. So trying to convince c
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by privong 11y ago
> Until the IRS stops using social security numbers to file, it's insecure. But if they move to another form of unique identifier, that'll just shift the fraud to that new identifier. The problem with SSN's isn't the
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The Long Tale of the American Income Tax(reason.com)
1 points by privong 11y ago|0 comments
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IRS Security(schneier.com)
58 points by privong 11y ago|29 comments
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by privong 11y ago
> Oh yeah, has been since Bush the second let the ban lapse. The ban expired because that's what was in the original law. There were efforts to pass a new ban, but they didn't even make it out of committee[0]. Perhaps a presid
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by privong 11y ago
> Slight digression, but does that mean owning assault weapons is a ok again in the US? Just curious. It depends what is meant by "assault weapon". If you mean fully automatic weapons, then no, but those were essentially banne
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by privong 11y ago
> especially as it comes from the same people who think that government interfering with their firearms is the end of society. Senator Feinstein, who co-released this draft bill, is also the senator who introduced the assault weapons ban

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